Newpipe is great for background listening and PIP (window can be resized/moved). For downloading, Seal reigns supreme. You can 'share' a video to the app and it downloads the video right away.
NewPipe – Lightweight YouTube experience for Android
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#22Awesome app. I send them money from time to time when possible!
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#23No mentions about ads?..
Just be careful that there are many clones filled with ads and sh*t on the Play Store; Play Store where they, the real app, cannot be
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#24I've been using this on android for more than 6 years. Love being able to quickly download a local copy of video or music as I'm boarding a flight or train. Highly recommend getting it using fdroid instead of apk because there have been points when youtube made changes that break the app and you'll need to get the latest update
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#25If the war on ablockers continues things may escalate, and the next step will soon mean deploying stronger DRM, in the same way that was tried in the fight against piracy. There's a real parallel between the two. Streaming killed piracy for a while because the service was easy and convenient, with everything in one place. Then, streaming added more and more ads all while it became more fragmented. Now if you pay for…
The end game is encrypted DRM stream (which is decrypted in the display) with encoded ads (so you can't block it tinkering with JS). I guess that only abundance of devices without DRM is stopping this scenario.
> encrypted DRM stream
Widevine already exists and is increasingly difficult to crack, especially the key levels required for 4k content.
> encoded ads
Only a matter of time before hardware encoders can do this on the fly
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#26Anything like this for Ios? Im now downloading vids or sound files from youtube for offline use with invidio.us
Yattee, needs a bit more tinkering to setup though (it's a general network videoplayer not an alternate YT client like NewPipe)
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/yattee/id1595136629
https://np.reddit.com/r/Yattee/comments/13d3lj7/how_to_set_u...
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#27If the war on ablockers continues things may escalate, and the next step will soon mean deploying stronger DRM, in the same way that was tried in the fight against piracy. There's a real parallel between the two. Streaming killed piracy for a while because the service was easy and convenient, with everything in one place. Then, streaming added more and more ads all while it became more fragmented. Now if you pay for…
The end game is encrypted DRM stream (which is decrypted in the display) with encoded ads (so you can't block it tinkering with JS). I guess that only abundance of devices without DRM is stopping this scenario.
> The end game is encrypted DRM stream
That's not the endgame -- Digg:Reddit::YouTube:Vimeo is the end game, IMHO.
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#28For iOS users, check out “yattee” for a similar setup
Highly recommend using F-Droid-capable phones/mobile support systems. Perhaps one day the iOS ecosystem will recognize the economic value of democratizing the platform, but until that day it's better to use open source software and as open of hardware as possible.
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#29Also, checkout NewPipe with built in SponsorBlock functionality: https://github.com/polymorphicshade/NewPipe
Yeah this is an absolute gem. Sad that original NewPipe didn't include the functionality, even optionally.
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#30If the war on ablockers continues things may escalate, and the next step will soon mean deploying stronger DRM, in the same way that was tried in the fight against piracy. There's a real parallel between the two. Streaming killed piracy for a while because the service was easy and convenient, with everything in one place. Then, streaming added more and more ads all while it became more fragmented. Now if you pay for…
What is it with the disdain for paying for services people use? People often don't feel like paying for it even if they use YouTube more than other streaming services combined.
Maybe the issue is that people got so used to a decade of unlimited high-quality videos for absolutely free?